BAKER reposting possible notable from late lb
In searching for more sauce for the arrest of Honduran president's brother, I happened upon this…. seems like it might be notable given the amount of fuckery there…
sauce: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/article222081205.html
3 Miami Cops Arrested By FBI
Feds say she’s a rogue cop, but her friends aren’t buying it
November 23, 2018 03:01 AM
Updated November 23, 2018 03:02 AM
MIAMI
In her portrayal by federal agents, Miami Police Officer Schonton Harris sounds like a character right out of the Denzel Washington cop thriller "Training Day" — a foul-mouthed badass who would do anything, even kill, to keep the drug dealers she protected happy.
Yet to many who know her, Harris was just a normal street cop — and one who displayed a soft spot for people in need. She trained in crisis intervention to deal with the mentally ill and was a former member of the Miami Police Department's Honor Guard, a sought-after post that honors fallen officers.
At a Winn-Dixie in Model City where she occasionally worked security as an off-duty cop, she would help the elderly with groceries to their cars. Monica Walker, who manages nearby Simon's Sportswear, said Harris had shopped in the strip mall for at least a decade, often with her daughter in tow. Walker can't believe the rogue cop allegations and suspects Harris was set up.
"They made her sound like a monster in the news," Walker said. "She didn't kill anybody. I don't believe she was the ringleader, either."
Harris and two other Miami cops were arrested by the FBI on a host of public corruption charges. Police and federal agents say Harris, 52, a 19-year vet who patrolled Model City, recruited her fellow officers into the drug-dealing protection racket and went beyond acting as just a lookout during cocaine and opioid transactions.
Harris, fellow Model City Neighborhood Resource Officer James Archibald and Officer Kelvin Harris, who worked the front desk at the North District Station, were all charged with conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine and willfully trafficking narcotics with a firearm.
The FBI claims in its arrest warrant that Harris was recorded threatening a man who got in her way with a gun and telling a federal informant she believed to be a drug dealer that she'd have no problem knocking off a fellow cop if it turned out he couldn't be trusted. The complaint cites a recorded conversation in September where Harris told the informant that if Archibald proved a problem, he would "disappear."
And, the FBI claims, Harris even sold a Miami police uniform and a badge to an undercover detective for $1,500, knowing that the gear was intended for a "sicario" — a drug cartel hitman.
At the trio's first court appearance shortly after their arrests, Schonton Harris was ordered held without bond. Bond for Kelvin Harris and Archibald, the two men she is accused of recruiting, was set at $200,000 each.
The eight-page criminal complaint filed on Oct. 11 in U.S. District Court in Miami says that three times between May and June, Schonton Harris accepted payments to protect couriers moving cash from the illegal sale of drugs. Over the length of the six-month sting, the three accepted payments of $33,500.